ESP George Lynchs

[prvv]

Any thoughts on these guitars sound,neck sizes? Also did neck
sizes or profile change at all from different years?

[GtrDr]

They are usually Maple Body, 1/4 sawn neck guitars with huge frets with very wide necks w/ Ebony or Maple fret boards. Think bright & heavy. There are exceptions. The Skull & Bones (Haji) is Alder W/ Rosewood board. The GL56 is a reliced strat. Theres a V shaped model now (Brahma).I have the M1 Tiger & Kamikaze. There expensive & aren't for everyone

[Jim S]

I had a rainbow tiger.


flat wide thin neck
OK sounding
Floyds suck arse
sold it and don't miss it at all

[Eagle1]

Good shred /metal guitar very well made ,but that is all it dose.

[brentrocks]

i had a Kami II and a Kami VI....both were heavy, both necks were as wide as a landing strip...but they sounded pretty good

[prvv]

Keep the comments coming

[Sir Douglas T]

I owned at one point 4 customshop george lynch guitars. They took forever to build and the tone was pretty good. Stayed in tune quite well. The quality couldn't match an Ibanez J-custom so I switched and played those for 5 years.Now I play Suhr guitars exclusivley and nothing I've played in the past can come close to the Suhr's if you order a custom build thats what you get. incredible stuff. Buy one used and save yourself 15 years worth of expensivee experimintation. All the best!! - Sir Douglas T

[Rebel-Guitars]

Good shred /metal guitar very well made ,but that is all it dose.

All it dose?

Sounds like you haven't played many, or just don't know there have been several models over the years. George has had probably 10 models ranging from shred guitars, to 50's vintage strats. For example, the first Skull & Snakes may have looked metal, but had a nice paf style humbucker and modern fender-ish neck. So did the Serpent. My GL-56 from 10 years ago has a killer V neck. The Kamikaze had a wider, flatter radius. So does the Super V. Don't knock'em til you try'em!

[Roodyrocker]

I have a few ESP's myself. The two Lynch models I have are the Sunburst Tiger and the Skull & Snakes. I like them both. They play and sound well and stay in tune well. The wider 1 3/4" nut takes some getting used to if you haven't played one before but the key thing I've found with ESP is the guitar setup makes all the difference in the world. When properly setup they play great but when the setup is off it makes them seem nearly unplayable to me. My other ESP's are a Screaming Skull and a neck thru yellow bengal tiger similar to Lynch's built for the 1990 NAMM show as well as a bolt on snakeskin and The Mirage. I still prefer Jacksons over ESP but the ESP stuff is nice.

[vds5000]

I had a very early Sunburst Tiger. It looked cool from a distance, but not so much up close. The neck was big and chunky and overall, the guitar was as heavy as a Les Paul. I remember trading my PRS EG Bolt-on for it shortly after selling my Kramer Nightswan. At the time, I felt the ESP was just a Kramer Nightswan copy. I also found the tone very midrangey and somewhat muddy. I eventually sold it for $800.

[Eagle1]

All it dose?

Sounds like you haven't played many, or just don't know there have been several models over the years. George has had probably 10 models ranging from shred guitars, to 50's vintage strats. For example, the first Skull & Snakes may have looked metal, but had a nice paf style humbucker and modern fender-ish neck. So did the Serpent. My GL-56 from 10 years ago has a killer V neck. The Kamikaze had a wider, flatter radius. So does the Super V. Don't knock'em til you try'em!
Played em all and got one . I stick by what I said there are better guitars for other styles of music particularly at that price .Great for metal though.